The spending measure that House lawmakers approved Wednesday would restrict funding for a new Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Southeast Washington, providing nearly $200 million less than the agencies overseeing the project requested for 2014…The DHS, now 11 years old and the third-largest department in the federal government, operates without a consolidated headquarters. Its facilities are spread across 50 locations throughout the Washington region.

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